Mysterious dark spot observed on Enceladus fades over time Enceladus’ icy plumes may explain the vanishing feature NASA’s Cassini mission images reveal the anomaly’s disappearance ...

The Juno spacecraft belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), an independent agency of the ...

Thanks to data collected by the Juno probe last winter, researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have learned ...

TRAPPIST-1 b is one of seven rocky planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1, located 40 light-years away. The planetary system is ...

The discovery solves a 44-year-old mystery of why, and how, Jupiter's violent moon, Io, became so volcanically active. Io is only slightly larger than our moon, with a diameter of 2,237 miles (3,600 ...

Take a captivating journey with an animated tour of Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, crafted from NASA’s Juno mission data. This stunning visualization reveals Io’s dramatic volcanic plumes, glowing ...

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Io's volcanic activity explained without magma ocean evidence Tidal heating powers volcanic eruptions on Jupiter's moon ...

NASA's recent flybys of Io, however, reveal that it likely doesn't contain a global magma ocean beneath its surface, as ...

Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the ...

Scientists with NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter have discovered that the volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io are each likely powered by their own chamber of roiling hot magma rather than an ocean of magma.